Chapter 1598: Punish No Matter How Far! I (1/2)
Chapter 1598: Punish No Matter How Far! (I)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”Find four hundred volunteers from the triangular gap. Tell them all the dangers and let them make the choice for themselves. Provide them with the finest weapons. In addition, mobilize all our power. I don't care what difficulties you face, whether it's surveillance in the air, scouts from the various countries, or Turkic sentries on the steppe. Within ten days, I want to see the result. No one can recklessly slaughter the people of the Great Tang without paying a price. Those who commit crimes against the Tang will be punished no matter how far they are!”
Wang Chong's voice was ice-cold, his words resounding through the room.
”Yes!”
The subordinates in the room shouted in unison and then left.
Following Wang Chong's order, the entire northwest region began to shake, and storms began to build up on the border.
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To the north, past the Beiting Protectorate, and seven hundred li into the deserted Turkic steppe, numerous people had gathered together, their tents rising from the earth, banners of black wolves representing the Western Turks standing between them.
The Turkic war banners snapped in the howling winds.
While the people of the Great Tang's capital and north were grieving and raging, this Western Turkic camp abounded in cheers and laughter, bonfires brightly burning while wine cups clinked together.
”Hahaha, come! Drink as much wine as you want, eat as much as you want!
”This is the dried meat the southerners went through so much trouble to cook! The quality is exquisite! I hear that they need to smoke the meat for seven days and nights to make this.
”How is it? Not bad, right?”
At this moment, in the northernmost part of the camp, a Turkic man with long and messy hair, a scar on his face, and a bare chest was raising a large bowl of alcohol. He was seated around a bonfire with several other Turkic soldiers, all of them loudly cheering and drinking.
The large bowls they used to drink alcohol were not the ones commonly used by the Turks. These were made of white porcelain and had a ring of green flower designs. And if one looked carefully, one would see that these bowls also had dried blood stains.
But these Turkic soldiers didn't care about this.
”What a pity! In order to not leave behind clues, we had to kill all those southern women. Otherwise, we could have taken them back to camp to have some fun with them.”
One of the Turkic soldiers regretfully sighed. Taking a dagger, he cut a piece off the meat that was roasting over the fire, put the piece in his mouth, and slowly chewed.
His words caused the other soldiers to go quiet, all of them with looks of yearning. All of them knew of how tender and soft the skin of southern women was, and their soft and supple bodies had a quality that Turkic women didn't possess.
Unfortunately, the influence of the Great Tang had made all southern women exceptionally fierce. The women of that village had struggled mightily, and the soldiers were also somewhat fearful of the consequences of their deeds, so it had been decided to kill them all.
”But Milord, are we really being transferred away in a few days?” one of the Turkic soldiers suddenly said, his face brimming with reluctance. ”We barely got a taste and now we're being ordered to withdraw. It's really hard to accept this!”
”There's nothing to be done about that. I heard that our massacre of that village has been discovered. We were still too careless and left behind some footprints, allowing them to conjecture that it was us. I hear that this incident has caused a great stir in the capital of the Great Tang, and even the King of Foreign Lands has taken notice of us. Our superiors are preparing to send us farther north until this storm blows over,” the bare-chested Turkic captain said.
The other soldiers fell quiet. They were none other than members of the squad who had massacred four-hundred-some Tang and burned down an entire village, sending great quakes through the Great Tang and its surrounding countries.